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is that more or less the HW powering the samsung galaxy S3?
(screen and radio sections excluded of course)

the performances of those little boards are getting interesting.
Another generation and they'll be the perfect entry level for inexpensive and tiny computing (netbooks and net-tops)
I just hope the performance per watt stays on the path of ARM tradition (i.e. way better than intel)

Well, Atom often *is* faster than Cortex-A9, mostly because of high clock speed and good single-threaded performance.

This is typically why I'd like to see such a benchmark. A9 is faster than Atom and its single-thread performance is higher. The only benchmark where I saw Atom faster is external memory bandwidth (and even then it was comparing a desktop Atom vs an A9 smartphone).

I believe that is the case... also, it does not look like it is posting the architecture info (and dmesg etc) to the OB systems directory. Will see if I can diagnose that as well on another benchmark run.

We now have the board hooked up to a WattsUp meter and it never jumps over 6W... it was running blogbench at 414% of CPU* at 6W for a second or 2... not stressing the memory simultaneously though so I will need to find a good benchmark for that. Indeed, it is tough to find a benchmark that stresses the whole system simultaneously.

* it was usually 398% or lower... not sure what to divine from a 414% usage... is there a Cortex-M in there somewhere?

Not hard really. Just run stream and dgemm with large datasets simultanously. If you want to include disk, it gets a bit more tricky to do it well I guess. You will find both in HPC Challenge (stream is in PTS too).

We now have the board hooked up to a WattsUp meter and it never jumps over 6W... it was running blogbench at 414% of CPU* at 6W for a second or 2... not stressing the memory simultaneously though so I will need to find a good benchmark for that. Indeed, it is tough to find a benchmark that stresses the whole system simultaneously.

If you want to push power consumption make sure NEON is being used on the 4 cores. Video encoding/decoding with FFmpeg and 4 threads should do it